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The National 2.5 in Gauge Association continues to support live steam passenger hauling in 2.5-inch gauge using MES tracks. They use a "scale" appropriate to the original prototype modelling both standard and narrow gauge locomotives to run on 2.5-inch track. -1:16: 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm) A worldwide garden railroad scale.
Narrow-gauge models in this gauge can be as large as 1:3 scale. 5-inch Live steam: 1:12: 127 mm or 121 mm Ridable, outdoor gauge. The gauge is 5 in (127 mm) in Europe, but 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (121 mm) in US and Canada. For standard gauge prototypes at 5 inch, the correct scale is 1 1 ⁄ 16 inch per foot or approximately 1:11.3. Alternatively 1.1/8 ...
Advances in locomotive design, particularly the advent of diesel-electric power, eventually rendered No. 999 obsolete. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] After touring the nation and making appearances at numerous expositions, including the 1948-49 Chicago Railroad Fair , the unit was retired from service in May 1952, following its demotion to yard switching service ...
Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (a vehicle that ran on two parallel 2 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (825 mm) gauge tracks, billed as 18 ft (5.5 m) gauge), Furzebrook Railway and Volk's Electric Railway: 838 mm 2 ft 9 in: Japan Nankai Railway (former gauge, converted to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in gauge) England
For instance, scales of 1.5, 1.6, 2.5, and 3 inches per foot (corresponding to scales of 1:8 to 1:4) have been used on a 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm) track gauge. The generally accepted smallest gauge for a live steam locomotive is O scale. Producing smaller-scale models remains problematic, as the laws of physics do not themselves scale: creating ...
An 18-inch minimum gauge model of No. 1 was built in 1898, at the Regent Street Polytechnic, from a set of parts supplied by W. G. Bagnall. Amongst the students at Regent Street who worked on the model was Henry Greenly who later became a celebrated miniature locomotive builder and supplied locomotives for the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway .
Henry Greenly's 1:1 blueprint diagrams for 0 to 2½ gauge, a page from the 1924 Bassett-Lowke Catalogue B. Greenly's designs have been celebrated in countless periodicals and books, [4] but the greatest testimony to his skill is the enormous number of his locomotives that are still operating today.
They had begun building steam locomotives in 1894, and their popular 15 in (381 mm) gauge 4-4-0 was a crude replica of New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999, the first in the world to travel over 100 mph (161 km/h). [3]